How to Use helix in a Sentence

helix

noun
  • The formic acid breaks up the giant stacks of spirals–or helices–that make up starch.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Closer inspection shows some of the rungs of the helix are askew.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Unlike a forward helix, a flat helix isn't meant to be seen from the front.
    — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 29 Oct. 2022
  • By evening, an empty half-helix was all that remained of every bean on the vine.
    — Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2018
  • That stress triggers changes in shape, most notably opening up the helix to be read.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2016
  • This time around, people are gluing crystals to their brows in a helix-like shape.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The light emerges looking like a helix corkscrewing around a central point.
    — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
  • But in real life, these amino acids tend to curl up into a helix or stretch out into a sheet.
    — Vineeth Venugopal, Science | AAAS, 3 Apr. 2020
  • One common feature is a spiral stretch of amino acids called an alpha helix.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2017
  • The dark shadows in the deep pink wavy lines are the rungs of the DNA helix.
    — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Behind him, light glints off the rungs of a golden helix rising up through the staircase’s airy well.
    — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • His was the first example of what later came to be called a helix traveling-wave tube.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Aug. 2015
  • The letters formed rungs on the ladder of a spiraling double helix.
    — Kristen Philipkoski, WIRED, 14 Feb. 2003
  • This is different from the twist of the double helix, and is instead like the curling of an old-school phone cord.
    — Nick Stockton, Wired News, 12 May 2015
  • If someone asked me five years ago to locate the forward helix on my body, a wild guess would have been my only option.
    — Fiona Ward, refinery29.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Another one is that triple piercing on the fore helix, the flower and the two diamonds.
    — Sarah Wu, Teen Vogue, 24 July 2017
  • Like the helixes your solar system makes spiraling through the ether.
    — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2019
  • In Florence, visitors can still see and touch the helix that merged art and science six centuries ago.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
  • What a waste of time for a human to have to find the nearest facility, drive there, helix up endless ramps, and then cruise the aisles.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Ideal for mixing and matching, this labret earring is fit for your helix, as well as the upper, lower and higher lobe.
    — Bernd Fischer, Men's Health, 25 July 2022
  • The helix is one of several office towers granted approval, but the helix stands out.
    — Matthew Barakat, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
  • That is, instead of being a right-handed helix, the molecules turned in the wrong direction.
    — Matthew Herper, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020
  • It is located at the interface within a helix bundle at the base of the prefusion spike.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The steel helix expands like a tornado from the middle of the room, covered in fluorescent fish.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • Off-season, the waterfall pool and double-helix slide and pool are heated to over 85 degrees.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The flat helix is specifically the flat area of cartilage located in the upper ear.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Before the end you will be taken on a wild ride with a 540-degree helix, one spiral, a camelback hill and a carousel curve.
    — Julia Fawal, Woman's Day, 24 July 2015
  • Think of kindness and gratitude as two strands that twist together into the helix of your child's happiness.
    — Catherine Newman, Parents, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Throughout the course, riders will go up a conveyor belt, down a four-story drop, through two underground tunnels, and around a helix.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
  • That's cool, but such an approach cannot build complex structures like DNA helixes or hollow tubes.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2018

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